Lost in the Darkness

In the modern age, popular culture presents the world to us almost exclusively through the eyes of the liberal cultural elites. Through literature, television, film, and advertising, they dictate who can be heroes and who can be villains, who is to be "celebrated" and who must be mocked and derided.At least since the television show All in the Family was created for the express purpose of ridiculing middle-class white men, entertainment has been a weapon in the culture war. Because of...
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In the modern age, popular culture presents the world to us almost exclusively through the eyes of the liberal cultural elites. Through literature, television, film, and advertising, they dictate who can be heroes and who can be villains, who is to be "celebrated" and who must be mocked and derided.At least since the television show All in the Family was created for the express purpose of ridiculing middle-class white men, entertainment has been a weapon in the culture war. Because of the power of the self-appointed enforcers of discourse to shut down dissent with gasping, finger-wagging, head-shaking disapproval, that war has been thoroughly one-sided.Lost in the Darkness is a novel that seeks to break this monopoly by depicting the unholy convergence of radical politics, racial resentments and psychologically disarmed youth, taught to kneel before the gods of diversity and multiculturalism, that characterize life in the Western world. Though it offers neither solutions nor even hope, it may make a small dent in the silent majority's craving to have something, anything, in popular culture that exposes this madness, and flaunts its taboos.Lost In The Darkness is set mainly in the year 1997 on a college campus, and captures, rather than invents, a culture in which racial issues exert a Kryptonite-like effect so powerful that normal human instincts are subverted.Although the tale is fictional, the events, attitudes and rhetoric depicted will be instantly recognizable to several generations of Americans - Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, and Millennials - just as they would be incomprehensible to earlier generations. Will future generations view this tale as a warning, a cultural touchstone, or just "racist"?